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In April last year, Dealroom introduced Europe’s Most Prominent Venture Capital Investors. It’s a transparent ranking of venture capital investors, based on quantitative criteria only. Last year the ranking…

French tech has made a stunning rise over the past years. In 2017 France even overtook the UK by number of venture capital rounds. And for a moment in 2017…

Germany led Europe by venture capital investment in Q1 2018, largely driven by mega rounds like Auto1, Number26 and BioNTech. However, even excluding the top three rounds, German investment…

Today’s pipeline of European unicorns is worth more than €60 billion. But big tech is about more than just unicorns. Europe counts at least 154 tech companies valued over $1…

With investment of €28 billion, 2018 was a record year for European venture capital (or €21 billion, when excluding biotech and Europe). It was a record year for VC-backed exits…

A record €19.2 billion was invested (€22.1 billion including Israel) in 2017. The full European Venture Capital Report is now available for free below as PDF presentation:

The advent of big tech and mega-rounds UK investment nearly doubled from $4.2 to $7.8 billion in 2017. Mega-rounds were a major growth driver. For instance, 2017 saw 22 rounds over…

The heatmap above shows the most active venture capital investors in 2017, by number of European rounds. Again, Bpifrance leads again by a wide margin. The…

Investors continued betting on European tech at a record pace. Preliminary Dealroom data shows that €19.4 billion in Venture Capital was invested into European companies in 2017, a…